Chapter One
PROJECT SPONSOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Upper managers in many organizations express frustration through statements such as "We did project management in our company, we spent a lot of money and effort training and educating our project managers, and we developed a project management career path. So why do we still have problems on our projects?"
These managers wonder when they will see improved productivity and profitability from their projects. Vendors provide software tools that appear to offer them the help they need. Conferences and seminars highlight best practices learned by other organizations, how to do portfolio management, and how to capture project requirements. Project managers earn professional certification. They learn that exe ... read full excerpt from Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success ebook